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$10 you're talking about Germany

You might not like it, but this is what peak HN looks like

The Skytrain does in Vancouver.

That's the Bang system

I paid $1450 for a 1 bed that was >1000 sq feet in Jackson Heights and it was _beautiful_. It's just not the Village.

Tumblr has been repeatedly valued at around $0, and I believe Yahoo did a huge write down at one point. I think they know this will kill the site and that's intentional. Tumblr has never been successfully monetized for various reasons, and occasionally generates bad press. It's sad - the "old internet" is quickly dying off. It basically leaves image boards, non-default Reddit, and SA.

I've heard a lot of people are back on Usenet these days? Discord really doesn't do it for me.

Far Right + Far Left !== somewhere good, you just get Reddit (or WW2). You need sane people to have sane conversations.

In my experience, poorly - the number of default passwords, copied-because-i-don't-know-what-it-does configurations, weird setups, lack of backups, backups to a local disk, backups to a mounted locally disk, etc. I've seen is shocking.

The fact that anything works has gotten way weirder to me as I've gotten older - I've seen a bunch of codebases and persistence setups, and it all seems so fragile.

People don't like to hear that, or that they shouldn't live places without natural water sources

Canada is so weird to me - you have Trudeau, who is fairly left wing, you have the controversial C-16/speech stuff (I don't know enough to comment here, but progressives seem to like it), and then you have the Tar Sands, which are so environmentally horrible it's remarkable. You have Trudeau pushing for NAFTA to have language protecting native peoples - which is very progressive - and then you have fucking forced sterilization? It's mind boggling.

It wouldn't be so weird to me if they didn't act holier-than-thou about the US, but at least Americans readily admit we're weird and fucked up.

I don't know if the government does, but plenty of individual states have investment funds or pension funds that do VC work. Apprenda, my old employer, was partially backed by the a New York State pension fund

Israel's war record also has to give Iran pause - Israel does not fuck around. The 6 day war embarrassed a ton of leaders in that part of the world.

Sicilian is still spoken a bit in the New York Metro area - a lot of New Jersey Italians that speak fluent Italian have trouble communicating with people in Italy, because it's Sicilian!

Isn't this just WCF reborn? Contracts, codegen no one will use, etc

If someone can figure out how to make money to reverse climate change, that will be the end of climate change. The whole problem is that it's hugely expensive and only impacts each of us a tiny tiny bit _today_

This doesn't sound relevant to carbon fixation:

"Witches, Midwives, & Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches."

If you told me 5 years ago that incels would commit repeated massacres and Pepe would have a controversial page on Hillary Clinton's campaign site, I would never have believed you. Of all the words of tongue and pen...

They're smaller? Houses in the US are crazy large (Australia too, apparently)

https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/fun-at-home/news/a765...

Companies that do 1 thing tend to do that thing well. Companies like Facebook or Google that do dozens tend to be sloppy.

War is Boring

You're both right because you're talking about local laws and GP is talking about the post-war order, which is held together by American hegemony. It's not mentioned in the article, but people have argued that Nixon (who has a lot in common with Trump in general) held things together basically the same way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

People on HN seem to believe the default state of humanity is driving everywhere and living in the suburbs, when that's only true in particular parts of the US for the last 80 years or so. A frequent question I see about not owning a car is "well how could I possibly get groceries otherwise??" The only way we can address our individual footprint and our isolation crisis is to build real towns and cities again, but I'm doubtful.

Don't have a lot of hope for this one, people are willing to tell others to change their patterns but will rarely change their own. That way, you get woke points but don't have to do anything. Plus that Tesla looks GREAT in the driveway, especially when you consider that climate change is all everyone else's fault.

The Book of Genesis is probably around 3000 years old - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis#Composition

Dark matter/energy always sounds like a restatement of aether - unknowable and unreachable, conceived to fill gaps in the knowledge of the period. I'm probably wrong, but the parallels are strong.

*In San Francisco. My friend lives exactly the lift GP describes, but in the Hudson River Valley, in a beautiful Victorian house (with roommates). He's also incredibly jacked now. It's totally possible.

Rogue ICMP packets performing a reflection attack on those schmucks on Mars

Brendan Eich, for donating to the campaign for a (stupid) law that was later approved by voters.

This is a good exercise that the other answers fail at the twist.

Git is a blockchain, and sometimes a private one.

I thought iOS doesn't do that anymore?

These days, England.